EU Battery Regulation 2023/1542 — Digital Passport Compliance.
How to comply before the February 18, 2027 deadline. AI extracts the Annex XIII fields from your existing documentation and generates your GS1 Digital Link QR code. From 18 February 2027 you must also upload the unique identifier of each battery to the ESPR Article 13 registry. Automating that upload is on our roadmap.
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At a glance
EU Battery Regulation 2023/1542 requires a Battery Passport for every EV, LMT, and industrial battery above 2 kWh placed on the EU market from 18 February 2027. The Commission guidance of 15 August 2026 enumerates 71 data points, of which 47 are mandatory for EV batteries at that date, covering chemistry, recycled content, supply-chain due diligence, and end-of-life data, accessible via a QR code with tiered access for consumers, authorities, and certified operators.
- Mandatory from 18 February 2027 for EV, LMT, and industrial batteries above 2 kWh.
- 71 data points in the Commission guidance; 47 mandatory for EV at February 2027.
- Carbon footprint declaration is not to be filled or displayed at February 2027, pending the format implementing act.
- Article 77(3) requires the QR code and unique identifier to comply with the ISO/IEC 15459 series.
- Portable batteries and SLI batteries face separate, later passport obligations.
What Regulation 2023/1542 requires
Annex XIII data fields
47 to 50 mandatory data points at February 2027, covering recycled content, performance, and supply chain.
GS1 Digital Link QR code
Machine-readable identifier on every battery.
Supply chain due diligence
Full chain of custody from raw materials to finished product.
ESPR DPP Registry (Article 13)
From 18 February 2027, Article 77(10) requires you to upload each battery's unique identifier to the registry set up under ESPR Article 13. Automated submission from Traceable is on our roadmap.
How the AI engine handles battery compliance
Upload your IEC certificates, UN 38.3 test reports, carbon footprint studies, and BOMs. AI extracts every Annex XIII field automatically.
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Your Annex XIII compliance score updates as each field is extracted — carbon footprint, recycled content, performance data, supply chain due diligence. You see every gap before any market surveillance authority does.
Component data from your suppliers enters the passport only after they explicitly approve each data request — giving you a consent-backed audit trail alongside the compliance data.
For your compliance team
First compliant output with existing documentation.
Free 30-day pilot, then from €15 per published passport.
Full production rollout including supplier data collection.
For certification bodies
Verification built in — not bolted on.
Certification bodies operating on Traceable get a prioritised queue, source-linked evidence records, and an immutable audit trail — all in one place. No exported PDFs, no email threads. Built for your workflow from day one.
Evidence-ready records arrive in sequence. Review what matters first.
Every data point links to its exact source document, page, and table cell.
Every action timestamped. Every decision recorded. Fully auditable.
Cathode active material suppliers build their compliance profile once and share composition data with each connected battery manufacturer on their own terms. When an operator requests data, sharing is instant — relationship-scoped, never exposed beyond what each manufacturer is authorised to request.
Certification bodies log into Traceable to verify your battery compliance records directly. Evidence-linked review, immutable audit trails, prioritised verification queue. No exported PDFs. No back-and-forth emails.
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Free resource
EU Battery Passport Checklist — Annex XIII
Every mandatory field in Annex XIII, organised by data category. Use it in supplier conversations, internal reviews, and audit preparation.
Battery Passport — Common Questions
Yes for the regulation, no for the passport. Portable batteries are in scope of EU Battery Regulation 2023/1542, but Article 77 sets no battery passport obligation for them at all. The 18 February 2027 date applies to LMT batteries, electric vehicle batteries, and industrial batteries above 2 kWh. Article 78 allows the Commission to extend passport requirements by delegated act, and no such deadline exists in the regulation today, so there is no timetable to plan against yet. On classification: Article 3(9) makes portable a residual category, meaning sealed, weighing 5 kg or less, not designed specifically for industrial use, and not an electric vehicle, LMT or SLI battery. All four conditions must hold, so a sealed 4 kg pack that powers an e-scooter is an LMT battery, not a portable one. Confirm applicability with legal counsel before relying on this.
Annex XIII is the schedule in EU Battery Regulation 2023/1542 that lists every data field a Battery Passport must contain. It is organised as four numbered points, each one an access tier, and covers general information (manufacturer, model, chemistry), carbon footprint, recycled content, performance and durability, hazardous substances, supply-chain due diligence, and end-of-life handling instructions. European Commission guidance of 15 August 2026 enumerates 71 data points across those points, of which 47 are mandatory for EV batteries at February 2027, 50 for LMT and 32 for industrial above 2 kWh.
Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 does not create a separate EU Battery Registry. Under Article 77(10) the economic operator placing the battery on the market must upload the unique identifier into the registry referred to in Article 13(1) of the ESPR, Regulation (EU) 2024/1781. ESPR Article 13(1) required the Commission to set that registry up by 19 July 2026, and Article 13(5) requires an implementing act specifying the arrangements for using it. Traceable's automated registry submission is on the roadmap and not yet live, so from 18 February 2027 you would complete that upload yourself. The QR code on your product is unaffected either way.
Yes. EU Battery Regulation 2023/1542 requires a unique battery identifier that conforms to the GS1 Digital Link standard. A GTIN-13 or GTIN-14 is the standard product identifier used. If you do not already have a GS1 company prefix and GTINs, you register through your national GS1 member organisation. Traceable generates the compliant GS1 Digital Link QR code from your GTIN automatically.
A battery carbon footprint declaration is a mandatory document under EU Battery Regulation 2023/1542 that states the total lifecycle CO₂-equivalent emissions per kWh of usable energy for a battery model. EV batteries must have a carbon footprint declaration from 18 February 2025. The declaration must follow the methodology in the Commission's implementing act, covering raw material extraction, manufacturing, and transport stages.
Further reading
Regulatory Guide
EU Battery Regulation 2023/1542 — Full Guide
Scope, Annex XIII fields, carbon footprint timeline, and all Article 77 obligations — the primary reference for battery manufacturers.
Regulatory Guide
GS1 Digital Link — QR Code Standard
How the ISO/IEC 18975 standard works, why the EU chose it for DPPs, and how to generate a compliant QR code.
Regulatory Guide
What Is a Digital Product Passport?
The foundational explainer — definition, data tiers, lifecycle scope, and how the passport follows a product from manufacture to recycling.
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